Women's rights

Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban, Rules Against Bodily Autonomy in Planned Parenthood Case

Yesterday [January 5, 2023], the Idaho Supreme Court, in a 3-2 opinion, ruled against pregnant people by holding that the state’s extreme...

Legal Voice Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson and the overturn of Roe v. Wade

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned...

What Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Means for the Northwest

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that poses a direct...

Advanced Practice Clinicians in Alaska Can Now Provide Medication Abortion

In the midst of what can only be described as a travesty of justice for pregnant people in Texas, Legal Voice, together with Planned...

Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in 9 States

Legal Voice joined the Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality today in releasing a report, “Designed to Deceive:...

Indigenous People's Day is Not Just Today. It's a Daily Practice.

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay. However, the recognition of the leadership and resilience of Indigenous communities should be a practice...

The Courts Agree: PP deserves to treat patients without harassment from anti-abortion extremists

In June of 2020, Legal Voice and the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, filed a complaint on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Greater...

Challenging Idaho’s “Physician’s Only” Law

In December 2018, Legal Voice, along with Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, filed suit against...

Federal Court Rules Idaho’s “Pregnancy Exclusion” For Living Wills Is Unconstitutional

In a victory for pregnant people’s civil rights, a federal court in Boise held that Idaho law cannot require people capable of pregnancy...

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance, we say the names of the 37 persons whose lives were taken too early, who experienced...

Idaho Trans Athlete Lawsuit Update

(Our plaintiff Lindsay Hecox and supporters outside the courthouse hearing arguments about Idaho's anti-trans law.) While the pandemic...

See You In Court Betsy DeVos!

Students have been wrestling with enormous change this Spring. A global health pandemic, exacerbated by racial inequities, has upended...

Fighting for Workers' Economic Justice

Disasters lay bare the inequities already existing in our society. While the latest COVID-19 economic news is mind-boggling—the highest...

Idaho Targarted Trans Athletes; We've Taken Them to Court.

No Girl or Woman Should be Subject to "Sex Verification" Last month, Idaho’s Governor Brad Little signed a law that bans women and girls...